Enhance Your Kitchen Design with Two Kitchen Cabinet Colors
Today we’re looking at a few different kitchen countertop and cabinet pairing examples. Some of the kitchens that were going to show today use more than one color cabinet. In the picture below, for example, the majority of the cabinets in this kitchen are a pure white color. The floor is a natural medium depth of color herringbone wood flooring. White cabinets work pretty well with the natural wood color flooring, we’ve seen this type of color pairing done in many different kitchens and the white and natural wood both blend and contrast yet complement each other. They go ok together.
In the kitchen shown in the picture below though, there is a little bit more going on. Instead of a simple more minimalist color scheme, they used a darker upper color cabinet at the wall shown to the left. The backsplash between the underside of the cabinets and the countertop has a high gloss reflectivity. Meanwhile, the countertop is a relatively dark gray color which complements the gray cabinets at the left side of the photo. In total though, there are at least four different principal colors being used in this kitchen. It’s a minimalist layout but with a busy color scheme and it’s not clear whether it’s visually effective from a design perspective.
The overall configuration and layout of the kitchen is almost similar to a minimalist style, yet the color scheme is so varied that it almost adds a busyness to the overall aesthetic. The dynamics of the overall space are altered by this difference in this use of an additional color. The next kitchen, shown in the next picture below, also uses a dark color base cabinet panel at the island with a white base cabinet and white upper cabinet in the remainder of the kitchen. The side of the island, shown here, is visible from the living room in the open floor plan layout.
When standing directly in the middle of the kitchen though you don’t see those dark color Island panels, from all angles. In this case, they chose this particular variation to demarcated and separate the spaces. The dark color works well with the dining room design where the kitchen design remains relatively light.
The backsplash between the oven and the refrigerator, behind the cooktop also helps to soften the visual contrast because the backsplash includes a mixture of colors that range from white to medium gray. There is a visual language built into that backsplash designs that ties some of the elements of the kitchen together. The refrigerator is a black stainless color. Traditional stainless looks a bit like the color of silverware, and also looks a bit like nickel. This darker stainless steel color by comparison is a bit more modern and edgy, and can look particularly good in a more minimalist design.
Here though, the variety may actually clash instead of coming together with a visual harmony, but the backslash, centered behind the cooktop areas helps to tie these disparate elements together.
The next picture below shows how that kitchen looks, without the dark panels being visible, more like how it actually looks from standing within the kitchen itself. Here though in this picture, you notice that the wood floor is also a medium dark color as well. It isn’t really clear though that that dark color of the floor is dark enough to complement the panel at the rear of the kitchen island. In fact, they might actually work against each other instead of complimenting and working together.
The next kitchen, shown in the picture below, works with a similar type of variety, but kind of comes together a bit better. The flooring, backsplash, and countertop, are all different shades of gray. In general, it’s often good advice to not pick colors that have slight variation but not enough to complement. When two colors are very close but slightly different, often it will look like they actually clash instead of complimenting each other together.
In this case, the subtle variations in the shades of gray work ok together. it just comes off as acceptable from an intuitively visual perspective. However the same approach, of mixing shades and colors that are close but not the same, can create a sense of visual noise, detracting from the minimalist aesthetic. The best general advice to achieve a harmonious color grouping is to consider using a consistent color palette, for a more minimalist look, or introduce more distinctly contrasting elements to break up the monotony.
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